is the victim of cruel slander on the part of that big bully, Yahweh?
2007-03-16 12:37:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.
The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.
Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.
Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.
Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.
Love and blessings
don
2007-03-16 12:41:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
(Laughing) I love it!
Do you ever wonder if Batman will conquer the Penguin? Or if there were any children in the rye when Holden left to catch them? Both are much along the same lines as Beezlebub and Yahweh. It's fun to imagine fictional characters.
Not so much for those who make it reality. Poor buggers.
2007-03-16 19:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I don't think much of slander at all. Remember... "sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me."
But you've got the description of Yahweh right!
2007-03-16 19:42:41 · answer #3 · answered by Rapunzel XVIII 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahweh needs to watch his back.
2007-03-16 19:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably. Rumor has it that he wasn't even "Lord of the Flies", but "Lord of the FRIES". And I do love french fries.
2007-03-16 19:41:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
he seems to have a lot of bad press i might be becauase of the virgins and hell fire
2007-03-16 19:44:00 · answer #6 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey, were you at Mass on Thursday too?
2007-03-16 19:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by a 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No....
2007-03-16 19:40:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋